Shoe sole grooving machine



Sept; 4, 1934. P. J. KIELY SHOE SOLE GROOVING MACHINE Filed Jan. 14, 1933 2 Sheets-Sheet l wmv IIIIIIW' Sept. 4, 1934. P. J. KIELY SHOE SOLE GROOVING MACHIN Filed Jan. 14, 1933 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Sept. 4, 1934 STATES PATENT ori-ice Application anuary 14,

13 Claims.

AThis invention relates to shoemachinery and particularly to a mechanism designed for the purpose of grooving the edge of material such as shoe soles.

The particular object of the invention is to rovide a means whereby the edge of ashoesole may be grooved to any desired depth to thus permit the application of an upper thereto in the manner shown in my cci-pending application filed of even date herewith, which has matured as Patent No. 1,959,792, granted May '22, 1934.

l-Ieretofore in the manufacture of shoes, in order to provide for the attachment of the upper to the shoe sole, it has been common practice to slit the edge of the shoe sole by forcing theedge of the shoe sole against a stationary knife. This knife makes a slit in the shoe sole extending parallel to the upper and lower surfaces thereof, this slitbeing in the form of a very acute V.

My present invention contemplates the provision of a saw for sawing out the material in the form of a kerf or groove from the edge of the sole, thus cutting away from the sole material equal in thickness to the folded edge of an upper or in other words equal to'two thicknesses of the upper so that the folded edge of the'upperA may oe-inserted within this groove and lill this space so cut out and abut rmly against a shoulder or wall formed atthe inner end of this groove, which 3 is impossible where a slit is vcut in the shoe sole.

A further object securedbythe use of a saw as distinguished from a knife, either arxed knife or a rotatable knife, is that the saw teeth roughen the inner surfaces of the groove so cut so that cement such as pyroxylin commonly used in making shoes may be applied to ythese roughened surfaces to hold the upper in place within the groove.

A still further object of the present invention is to provide means which will prevent the smooth 40' faces of the saw from coming in'contact with the walls of the slit and prevent the burning of the faces of the opposite walls of the slit which'very greatly weakens the-leather and in this connection to prevent the roughened surfaces formed by the saw from being smoothed. Y

Still another object of the invention is to provide in connection' with such a saw, gage means whereby the depth-of cut may be adjusted and another object is to provide a saw mandrel upon.

which one or more saws may be disposed' in close conjunction with each other so asto cut grooves of different widths.

A further object is to provide improved means for holding the Work in i place for sawing and provide means whereby the kerf may bel cut either 193s, serial No. 651,814 (ci. 1227i close to the inside margin of the sole at the kmiddle thickness of the sole or closer to the outside face of the sole.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following description. 66

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:-

Figurerl is a front elevation of a sole grooving machine constructed in accordance with my invention; f

Figure 2 is a section on the line 2 2 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a fragmentary side elevation of the structures shown in Figures 1 and 2;

Figure 4 is a fragmentary plan View;

Figure 5 is a section on the line 5-5 of Figure Y3; Y

Figure 6 is friction disks;

Figure l'l is a fragmentary section on the line '7--7 of Figure 6; 75

Figure 8 is a sectional View through the mandrel of the saw showing the shoe of two spaced blades@ s Referring to these drawings, l() designates a head mounted upon a supporting arm, the adjacent portion of which isdesignated 11. This arm may be supported in any suitable manner and its particular construction forms no part of my invention;

It will be seenv that this head l0 as shown in Figure 4 is rectangular in cross section having a rear wall and two end walls. Extending through the arm- 11 and into the hollow interior of the head is a saw mandrel 12 shown as 'supported at its outer end in a bearing bushing 13, vit being understood that this mandrel might be supported in any suitable manner. Any suitable means may be used for rotating this mandrel.;4 The forward end of the mandrel is reduced in diameter at 14 and has an interiorly screw-threaded countersink l5 carryingY theholding screw 16. Adapted to bedisposed upon this mandrel and particularly upon the reduced portion 14 thereof is the saw 17. i f i The edge face of the saw l'lis toothedY these teeth being of any suitable characterjand it is obvious that these teeth might be of various characters upon different saws so as' to secure different results. 1

Disposed on each Vside of the saw andholding it in place are the clamping disks 18 which are beveled on their margins. LDisposed between the clamping disks and the saw are the anti-friction plates ordisks. one of which is illustrated in Figa face view of one of the antiure 6 and which will be later described, these anti-friction disks being designated 19.

Opposed to the lower vertical face of the head 11 is an adjustable abutment 20 in the form of a plate, this being held in place upon the lower portion or the head l0 by means of the screw 21. The plate 20 as shown in Figures 2 and 5 is formed with the counter-sink 22 for the head of the screw 21 and rearward of this countersink with a rearwardly flared passage 23 through which the screw passes. The abutment 20 is, therefore, loosely held upon the lower face of the head. The abutment is capable or" being ady justed toward or from the face of the head by the use of the wedges 24. Four of these wedges are shown, two on each side, each wedge 24 being inserted in the space between the face of the head l0 and the rear face of the-abutment 20 and these wedges are adjustable inward to force the abutment outward by means of vthe adjusting screws 2,5. As illustrated, these wedges are' angularly extended at their outer ends and the adjusting screws 25 pass through these angular ends of the wedges. A collar 26 is disposed on each screw 25 to bear against the inner face Yof the angular portion of the wedge so that the wedges are positively moved inward or outward as the screws are turned. Y

The screws, of course, are provided with knurled heads whereby they may be adjusted. In adjustingy these wedges, the screw 21 is first loosened and then the wedges adjusted to the proper degree andthen the screw 2l is again tightened to force the abutment 20 against the wedges. By forcing the upper pair of wedges in further than the lower pair of wedges or the lower pair in further than the upper pair or otherwise differentially adjusting these screws or wedges, it is obvious that the abutment plate 20 may be adjusted at an angle with reference tothe saw instead of parallel to the saw. -v The work is disposed against this abutment plate 20 and forced against the saw and obviously, therefore, if the abutment plate is disposed atan angle to the saw, the kerf cut by the saw will be disposed at an angle.

Opposed to the abutment plate 20 is a presser foot or work holder 27. This is in the form of an approximately semincircular plate as shown in Figure l which is supported by two arms 2S which extend upward on each side of the head and at their upper ends are pivoted to the head'by pivots 29. These arms are'preferably outwardly bowed as shown in Figure 2 and the arms and the plate 27 are urged inward by means of the springs 30 attached to the arms andto pins 3l projecting from the supporting arm 1l. While I have illus trated the presser or work holding plate 27 as being rigid Ywith the arms, itis to be understood that it might be pivoted to the arms so that in all positions of the plate 27, it would be parallel to the face of the abutment plate 20. l

For the purpose of limiting the depth of the groove Vor kerf cut by the saw in the sole or other element being acted on, I provide avgage formed oftwo conjoined plates as shown in Figure 2, this gage being generally designated 31. The two plates of the gage vare cut away at their inside faces as at 32 to accommodate the saw'and` are centrally cut out as at 33 to accommodate the saw clamps 18 and to permit the screw 16 to be removed for changing saws. These plates which constitute the depth gage are convexly. curvedfat their lower edges at 34 ccncentricallyto'the saw.

i The depth gage 31 is adjustable verticallyx-and-to this end, one of the plates 31 is formed with a transversely extending slot 35 within which is disposed a square head 36 swivelly mounted upon a pin 37. This pin extends rearwardly through the rear wall of the head l0 which is slotted at 38 for this purpose and engages with a lever 39 operating in a vertical slot 40 formed in the head or in the enlarged portion of the arm 1l iinmediately rearward of the head. This lever is intended to be manually shitable vertically. Means are provided for holding this lever in its adjusted positions and finely adjusting it.

It will be seen from Figure 2 that the confronting faces of the abutment plate 20 and of the presser plate 27 at the upper ends of these plates are cut away respectively at 4l and 42 to accommodate the two portions of the gage 31 which extend down on each side on each face of the saw. Notkonly may the abutment plate 20 be adjusted inward or outward toward or from the saw, but stop screws, the heads of which are designated 43, are used for limiting the inward movement of the larms 28, these screws being adjustable so that the inner face of the presser plate when the presser plate is forced fully inward may be brought accurately to a predetermined distance from the face of the abutment plate 20. Obviously if the plate 20 be adjusted outward, the plate 27 also being adjusted outward, the groove will be nearer that face of the sole contacting with the abutment 20 than it will that face of the sole contacting with the face 27.

v*On the other hand, if the abutment plate 20 be adjusted away from the saw and the stop screws 43 be adjusted to permit the plate 27 to move inward further, the groove or kerf will be cut adjacent the face of the sole, that is, the face contacting with the presser plate 27. The width of the groove cut in the sole or other element depends, of course, upon the width of the saw used and with my machine, it is possible to use a plurality of saw blades disposed one against the other for cutting a relatively wide kerf or groove and, as.. shown in Figure 8, it is possible to use two saws 17 spaced from each other by means of an intermediate washer 44 or a plurality of thin intermediate washers or shims may be used for separating the saws just the amount desired and, under these circumstances, of course, two kerfs will be cut in the sole or other element being actedon. By using a thick and a thin saw, one of these kerfs may be relatively wide and the other relatively narrow.

If` the saw 17 contacted directly with the side walls of1 the cut made by the saw, while the teeth of the saw would roughen upthe faces of the side Walls,Y theY smooth portion of the saw beyond the teeth would tend to burn these roughened faces and to smooththe'm to a certain extent. In order to preserve these roughened faces, therefore, which is particularly necessary when the cut is deeper than the depth of theteeth on the saw, Iprovide the disks 19 previously referred to, which` disks are disposed one on each side of the saw blade as shown in Fig-ure 2 and are provided with the radially extending arms 45, these arms being very slightly notched orslitted at 46 (see Figure 7,) these slits or notches 'extending dilagonally of thewidth of the arms 45.

.Itwill' ybe understood that these disks 19 and the'armsf45'are made of very thin metal. For instance, they may each have a thickness of onethirty=second of an inch and in that case the kerfs 46 will be approximately oneesi'xty-fourth of an inchl in depth. These thin l-ar'l'ns 45aot "to,

into the leather.

instance, where it spread the wall on each side of the out away from the surface of the saw blade and the kerfs on these thin arms act to roughen up or keep the surface roughened up while the saw is cutting Under some circumstances, it very deep cut be made as, for is desired to split a sole entirely across or make a very deep iiap. In this case, the depth gages 31 are removed entirely from the machine and in order to prevent the contact of the roughened surface of theleather so out with the smooth surface of the saw, which, as above stated, would tend to burn the inner faces of the cut or smooth` them, I provide the deiiectors illustrated as four in number and designated 46. These deflectors extend vertically on keach side of the saw and at their lower ends are beveled downward and inward and bear against the lateral portions of the saw blade so that as the leather is splitor cut or deeply kerfed, these inclined or rounded edges 47 will force the two walls of the cut outward, and away from the saw blade. By reason of the slots 48, formed in these deiiectors 46, the deflectors may be held in any adjusted position by means of the bolts 49 which have heads or washers on the inside ends bearing against the margins of the slots 48 and at their outside ends carry nuts and washers 50. Normally and when cuts or kerfs of relatively small depth are to be cut, the-depth gages 31 are 'used and the elements 46 are shifted out of posiis desirable that a tion and these members 46 are only used when cutting aps or splitting a sole.

It is to be understood that the members 46 may be also used when the depth gage is used. If a sole is simply pushed upward, against the saw, the inner faces of the groove made by the saw would be prevented from coming in contact with the saw itself by the disks 19 with' the arms 45, but where the sole or other piece of work is being forced longitudinally along the edge of the saw so as to out a groove, for instance, along the entire peripheral edge of the sole, the wedge-shaped lower ends 47 of the members 46 act to hold the walls of the out apart and keep the leather away from the teeth of the cutter as the work is advanced.

It will be seen that by the aid of this machine,` slots of uniform width and of proper depth may be cut in the edges of shoe soles instead of cutting channels in these shoe soles by means of knives and that either one or a plurality of grooves may be out in the shoe soles by this machine and these grooves may be both of the same width or both of different widths and both of the same depth or of diierent depths by using saws of different diameters. These grooves may be out nearer to or further from one face of the sole by properly adjusting the abutment plate 20 and the presser plate 27 and may be out to any desired depth accurately by properly adjusting the depth gage 31. The rough surface of the leather on each side of the cut is prevented from coming in Contact with the smooth face of the saw so that it is not burned or smoothed and where deep cuts are made, the leather is forced away from contact with the smooth face of the saw.

While I have designed my device for particular use with shoe soles for cutting grooves therein, I do not wish to be limited to this, as obviously it might be used for .other purposes.

In my construction, a passageway or channel is left between the abutment plate 20 and the presser plate or work holder 27, this channel being entirely open at its ends and entirely open and unobstructed radially downward from the center of the saw. Thus the work may be shifted longitudinally and vertically, that is, in ardirection at right angles to the length of the head 11 or parallel to the length of the head. This permits a shoe sole to be inserted between the abutment plate and the presser plate 27 and the shoe sole fed through the machine'so as to carry the saw around any portion of the shoe sole or around the entire perimeter of the shoe sole if desired, the kerf following the edge contour of the shoe sole.

I claimz- 1. A shoe sole grooving machine including a support, a saw mandrel carried thereby and projecting beyond the end face of the support, a single circular saw carried by the mandrel and disposed parallel to the endface of the support, an abutment plate disposed beyond the periphery of thesaw but overlapping said periphery and against the face of which the work is disposed in order to beguided toward the edge of the saw, the abutment plate including a screw passing loosely through the middle of the abutment plate and into said support, vand adjustable means engaging opposite ends of the abutment plate on opposite sides of the screw for shifting either end of the abutment plate outward toward the plane of the saw, the space around said saw for receiving the work being free and unobstructed to permit the free movement of the work disposed against said abutment plate in a plane parallel tothe saw and either transversely to the axis of the saw or toward or from the mandrel.

2. A shoe sole grooving machine including a support, a saw mandrel carried thereby, a circu-y lar saw carried by the mandrel, an abutment 110 plate disposed beyond the periphery of the saw and against the face of which the work is disposed in order to be guided toward the edge of the saw, and means for supporting and adjusting the abutment plate including a screw passing loosely through the abutment plate and into said support, the passage of the screw permitting the plate to be rocked in any direction, and wedges disposed between the abutment plate and the'support and adjustable inward or outward to thereby shift the abutment plate toward or from the support and hold it in shifted position.

3. A shoe sole grooving machine including a support, a saw mandrel carried thereby, a circular saw carried by the mandrel, an abutment plate disposed beyond the periphery of the Vsaw and against the face of which the work is disposed in order to be guided toward the edge of the saw, and means for supporting and adjusting the abutment plate including a screw passing 186 loosely through the abutment plate and into said support, the passage for the screw permitting the abutment plate to be rocked in any direction, and wedges disposed between the four corners of the abutment plate and the support and adjustable inward or outward to thereby shift the abutment plate toward or from the support and hold it in shifted position, the wedges being independently adjustable whereby the abutment plate may be disposed at an angle to the plane of the saw.

4. A shoe sole grooving machine including a support, a single saw mandrel carried thereby, a saw carried by the mandrel, an abutment plate disposed inward of the inner face of the saw and extending beyond the periphery of the saw and against the face of which the work is disposed to be guided toward the edge of the saw, the plate being adjustable toward or from the plane of the saw, and a work holder plate opposed to the abut- 2l ment plate andA urged towardthe abutmentplate, the passage between the abutment plate and the work holding plate being open at its opposite ends and at the side opposite the saw.

5. A1 shoe sole grooving machine including a support, al saw mandrel carried thereby, a saw carried by the mandrel, an abutment plate disposed beyond the periphery of the saw and against the face or" which the work is disposed to be guided toward the edge of the saw, the plate being adjustable toward or :from the plane of the saw, a work holder opposed to the abutment plate, arms supporting the work holder and extending upward above the saw and pivotally engaged with the support, springs urging the arms inward toward the abutment plate, and adjustable stops limiting the inward movement o said arms.

6. A shoe sole grooving machine including a support, a single saw mandrel carried thereby projecting beyond the end face of the support, means for supporting one or kmore saws upon the saw mandreliwith the saw or saws in parallel relation to the face of the support, an abutment plate carried by the end face vof the support and disposed inward beyond the inner face of theY saw or saws and against the face oi which the work is disposed to be guided toward the edge of the saw, said abutment plate being adjustable toward or from the plane oi the saw, and a work holding plate opposed to the abutment plate, resiliently urged toward the latter, the space around said saw for receiving the work being free and unobstruoted to permit tree movement or the work disposed against said abutment plate in a plane parallel to the saw and in a plurality oi directions radial to the or" the saw.

7. A shoe sole grooving machine embodying a support, a saw mandrel carried thereby, a circular saw carried by the mandrel, an abutment plate disposed to extend over the periphery of the saw and disposed in aiplane inward of the plane of the inner face or the saw and against the face of which abutment plate the work is disposed to be guided toward the edge of the saw, and a gage adjustable to limit the depth or cutr made by said saw and having portions disposed on opposite faces ofthe saw.

8. A shoe sole grooving machine embodying a support, a saw mandrel carried thereby, a circular saw carried by the mandrel, anabutinent plate disposed beyond the periphery ofthe saw and against the face of which the workis disposed to be guided toward the edge of the saw, and a gage adjustable to limit the depth of out made by said saw, the gage being formed in two sections'disposed on opposite faces of the saw, the sections being spaced from each-other to accommodate the saw, the gage being adjustable to regulate the depth of cut.

9. In a machine of the character described, a saw man rel, a circular saw thereon, and lmeans for preventing contact of the material being cut with the side faces ofthe saw comprising disks disposed on opposite races of the saw, the outer margins Vofthe disks being' formed with grooves terasse n extending atan angle tothe direction lof rotation of the disks. l

l0. In a machine of the character described, a saw mandrel, a circular saw thereon, and means for preventing contact of the material being out with the side faces of thesaw comprising disks disposed on opposite faces of the saw and rotating therewith, the disks having arms extending radially therefrom to the toothed edge of the saw, the arms being transversely grooved.

ll. In a machine of the character described,a support, a saw mandrel carried thereby, a circular saw carried by the mandrel, an abutment plate disposed beyond the periphery of the vsaw and against the face or which the work is disposed to be guided toward the edge of the saw, and means or preventing contact of the inner faces of the material formed of the opposite; walls of the groove cut by the saw comprising adjustable members disposed on each face of the saw and having their lower ends beveled downwardly and inwardly toward the plane or the saw.

12. A shoe sole grooving machine embodying a head, a single saw mandrel extending through the head, a saw carrled by the mandrel in spaced relation to the tace of the head, an abutment plate carried by the head and having a margin overlapping the periphery of the saw, the inner face of theabutnient plate being disposed inward of the inner. face oi the saw, a work holding plate opposed to the abutment plate and having a width equal to the abutment plate, the inner face or" the Work holding plate overlapping the periphery of the saw but being disposed outward or the outer :tace of the saw, means urging the work holding plate toward the abutment plate, and a stop limiting the inward movement of the work holding plate.

i3. A shoe sole grooving machine including a support, a saw mandrel carried thereby, the support extending downward bevono4 the periphery oi the saw, an abutment plate disposed opposite the downwardly'extending portion of the support and beyond the periphery or the saw and against the aceof which the work is disposed to be guided F toward the edge of the saw, the space around the saw for receiving the work being free and unobstructed to permit tree movement of the work disposed against said abutment plate toward or from the mandrel or in a plane substantially parallel to the saw and extending transversely of the axis thereof, the abutment plate having a counter-sink in its outer face at its middle and an outwardly flaring passage leading from the counterusink, a screw .having its head disposed in the counter-sink and extending through the passage and-into the support, and adjustable means between the face of the support and the inner face of vthe abutment plate and disposed above and below the medial bolt whereby the abutment plate may be shited bodily outward into any one of a plurality of planes parallel to the plane of the saw or be permitted to move inward.

P. JOSEPH KIELY. L 

